Improvement in toy money-boxes



HUGH QUINN.

Improvement in Toy Money-Boxes.

No. 128,508, Patentedluly 2,1872..

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HUGH QUINN, OF EAST BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN TOY MONEY-BOXES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 128,508, dated July 2,1872.

T o allpersons to whom these presents may come:

Be it known that I, HUGH QUINN, of East Boston of the county of Suolkand State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Money-B0X; and dohereby declare the same to be fully described in the followingspecification, and represented in the accompanying drawing, of which-Figure l is a top view, Fig. 2 a front elevation, Fig. 3 a verticalsection, and Fig. 4 a horizontal section, of it.

The parts of the box as shown in the said drawing are held together by asingle screwbolt, and a nut bat either or one end. These parts are abase, A, two semicircular bodypieces, B B, a cap-plate, O, and a slottedhood or dome, D, the base and cap being recessed or ilanged, as shown,to receive the body-parts, arranged with respect to them, asrepresented. The hood is a cylindrical inverted cup, provided with amouth, or money-receiving slot or orifice, a, arranged eccentrically onit. The ho'od or dome D rests on the top of the cap C, which has anopening covered by such hood. Furthermore, the bolt E going down throughthe hood, the cap, the body, and the base, besides having a screw, b, toreceive a nut c, arranged as shown, is formed when within the case witha shoulder, or has a pin, e, run through it to constitute a support fora disk, F, arranged concentrically on the bolt so as to be capable ofsliding freely on it, the same being so that, during the operation ofinverting the money-box, the disk may fall down upon and cover theopening into the dome, and thus prevent any money from falling orescaping out the mouth of the dome, or being extracted by any implementintroduced into the said mouth. One of the parts of the body has, inbass-relief on its outer surface, the representation of a door. Unlessthe body be cast in two sections, as shown, it cannot easily have thesaid bassrelief, as such would prevent the extraction of i case,provided with a receiving-slit or mouth,

1r/,and with the bolt E going through the case and having the rest-pin eor its equivalent, all as set forth.

HUGH QUINN.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, S. N. PIPER.

